Yea they're a bit behind the times-we got rid of pennies years ago.

.Its Called being a True Believer in Christ

Some of you guys are in a sad state. Thanks Mark very interesting

You're welcome Brad. Actually this document is a probate decision some 40 years after Philip died as I recall. I have the Genealogy book of the Cody family (official copy is kept at the Museum archives in Cody, WY) but I don't have it with me. I just thought it was sincere how people long ago summarized their life's journey as they neared the finish line.

I note some of the same trappers come on this thread, as they often do, telling everyone exactly how it was in 1700 in America because they are the 2021 enlightened elites. Not me. I enjoy learning history but unlike the Tman'ers who seem to be cut from the same cloth as the folks tearing down statues who are also the 2021 enlightened ones, I'm not that smart. So why would I say I know everything today about my ancestors 250 years ago?

Prideful arrogance in 2021 has no bearing on 1698 unless you don't mind someone in 2575 rewriting our life narratives.
At the rate humans are headed, they probably will. And they will be wrong is my guess.

All I can say in 2021, as I support patients and families who are in their last days is that it's a very sincere, candid time for them.
I observe and learn from such people.

Blessings,
Mark

Well put Mark
it has been hard for many clergy dealing with this last round of the pandemic with family that were blindsides by a unexpected loss in the family.
now having a full year go by and not having any public gathering for funerals has put a strain on those family groups.
A simple thing like a will in place, sure does smooth the tensions between family members.

Re read that a couple times. Where is 1698 coming from? I read 1739.

Probate wouldn't have changed the substance of the will including the date that it was recorded.

not knowing how soon I shall die Do this day being the tenth day of August in the year of our Redemption Seven _teen hundred & thirty Nine

Still a really nice reach back to the pass. I was able to read a will from one of my ancestors from New England during the same period. Its good to know where we came from.

looks to me like a lot of people ought to read a little more history

What happened to that video you posted Mark that claimed we would all be telepathically connected to ICloud after taking the luceferan zombie virus shot?

Facebook factcheckers I could give a sxxt whether its 1698 1699 or 1738 and 11 months Always good to hear what you have to say Mark

Thanks Jeff. I really didn't dive into who died when. My post, and my smile while reading it, was in the verbiage of the will itself. Kinda neat in my book.
Not so much for others and that's fine.
Still can't figure why some on Tman make a routine habit of making themselves look grandiose by diminishing other's beliefs.
There's enough of that on the evening news. Charlottesville most recently with the statue of Lewis & Clark & Saqajaweah being taken down.
When you say you know all, be careful as others will outplay you at your same game.
...... as it falls on hard hearts.

Blessings,
Mark

The original family came in 1698--duh!

Lets see who the "duh" is Lufkin. Mark pls. clarify re. the dates as several people have asked.

Mark, your point stands out and is well taken. There will always be naysayers.

Here's something along those lines that I have carried around in my wallet many years for the naysayers who contend that Ben Franklin was an atheist:

"The Body of B. Franklin, Printer
Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out,
And script of its lettering and
guilding, lies here, food for worms.
But the work shall not be lost,
For it will, as he believed,
appear once more.
In a new and more elegant edition.
Corrected and improved by its
author.
Given by Ben Franklin to Sam Morris
August 31, 1776

portion of the Will:

"...I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Catarina...all thise falling articles, that is one bed and bedstad, her one chaise and one first [?], and the letle iron kitle and the [?] oven and too peuter plates and three spoons and spinning wheel and six pound of woll and the third part of the half acar of flax, that is in the ground now and all the ould flax from last years and too wooding buckits which I give all to my beloved wife, as a free and sepperate gift and all the remainder of my goods and chatles, and all and everything shall be sold by my executors..."